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Time to make C the COBOL of this centuryOpinion Nobody likes The Man. When a traffic cop tells you to straighten up and slow down or else, profound thanks are rarely the first words on your lips. Then you drive past a car embedded in a ...
Many banks and other financial institutions operate on IBM mainframes with code written in an ancient language. What are ...
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Boing Boing on MSNDOGE plans to rewrite Social Security codebase in months. Who cares if they fail?There's an old saying that goes something like this: if you don't know why the fence is there, don't take down the fence, no matter how decrepit the fence. Don't replace it, don't fix it, don't paint ...
Many “modern” languages are quite old: C is 52 years old, Python is 34 years old, and even JavaScript will turn 30 this year.
Experts are alarmed. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is currently experiencing great anxiety: As has now become known, IT systems that use the decades-old COBOL programming language used ...
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